The Way I Feel

In the poem The Way I Feel, the speaker (Giovanni) uses the motifs of contentment, comparisons, and repetition to justify the way she feels about someone. The audience in this poem seems to be the person in which Giovanni is writing about. The speaker writes in stanza five, “In my mind you’re a clock”. This comparison implies that this person in which Giovanni feels so strongly about changes her emotions by the second.  Another comparison the speaker makes is in stanza two. “I’ve realized I’m fulfilled like a big fat cow” this symbolizes that she is stuffed with emotion from this person that allows her to stiffen and remain where she is being that you are stuffed, sometimes you can’t move. Her contentment comes from stanza three in which the speaker states that “[she] is as glad as mortar” which is sediment used to attach bricks to each other. This implies that she is content upon being the bond that holds her and this person together. As the poem continues, the speaker uses repetition to emphasize that she is not embarrassed about the way she feels about this person. She concludes with repeating the title of the poem twice. The effect of this proves the speakers determination and confidence for the person in which she is speaking about which adds more drama to the comparisons written in the poem. Throughout the poem, the reader is able to depict the contentment within the tone in which she is writing. The poem is not a negative one in which the reader can tell that the speaker is happy with this person.